Would You Play Russian Roulette with a UUID?
I was explaining UUIDs to a junior colleague today, who was hung up on the idea of probabilities, and it lead to an interesting viewpoint. A UUID is a Universal Unique IDentifier. They're used all over the place in IT: as database identifiers, unique file names, etc. Here's one: 67fbd46e-7609-477f-b5c3-edf98bbbb511 I generated that on Linux by typing uuid -v4 Of course, there are many libraries for all the major program...
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